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Let me just say that being robust and challenging is not the same as being disrespectful, Mr Buckley. The Member talked about cross-community consent, but is it not, by definition, impossible to have cross-community consent on a post-Brexit arrangement because Brexit, by definition, does not have cross-community…
I thank the Member for giving way, and I will try to be brief. She mentioned cross-community consent and cross-community views. First, I have never ever demeaned or diminished unionist opposition to the protocol: I have not.
I thank the Member, and I will come to some of those issues. At a time when people expect unionists simply to, "Suck it up", the tone from the Members opposite in the debate has been appalling. The Windsor framework and the protocol were imposed without the support of unionism. They handed lawmaking powers in vast…
It is only a wee short one, Diane. A Member talked about the changes in rates of trade back and forth. Has anybody identified the fact that those changes in trade equate to the diversion? If anybody were to look at the trade back and forth across the Irish Sea rather than just through a particular bit, they would see…
Mr Speaker, I apologise: my phone went off; I forgot to put it on silent. The protocol and its successor, the Windsor framework, have overshadowed political and economic life in Northern Ireland for far too long. We have heard a range of views on that today. We have seen the sneering — I see it again from the Member…
I thank the Member for giving way. Does the Member agree that the biggest challenge that is being outlined to us all is, I suggest, if my connections with business are anything to go by, access to workforce and Brexit's being a block to workforce?
On the first day back, this is the first motion. A couple of weeks ago, we had an announcement that 19,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are not in education, training or employment and have absolutely no hope of anything in the future, yet the DUP brings a motion on the Windsor framework. You could not…
Thank you very much, Peter. There is another concern that should be expressed. I cannot understand how Members on this side of the House have been approached by lots of companies and individuals telling us about the real and significant problems, yet they do not seem to be talking to anybody else in the Chamber. Can…
The leader of the Opposition is not here. I cannot remember the exact phrase that he used, but "grow up" was perhaps it. The last time that I was told to grow up was maybe at school, but I am also pretty sure that my wife might have referred to that at some point during our marriage. I want to develop that a wee bit.…
Those paying attention to the debate — that is, if they are not preoccupied with cost-of-living pressures or concerns about housing and hospital waiting lists — could be forgiven for being perplexed as to what this rinse-and-repeat demand to dismantle the Windsor framework is really all about. The most recent data…
Will the Minister confirm that the cost of the gender identity service is not a one-off cost but an annual cost of over £800,000; that this is only phase 1 of that service and a second phase to involve GPs will result in additional costs to the public purse; and that there are currently no costings in the public…
Earlier, the Minister referenced "we", not "I". For the sake of clarity, will the Minister define who "we" refers to in his conversation? You talk about experts. My daughter is a nurse practitioner. She is my expert: she is whom I take my advice from. I would like you to explain to the House who is giving you advice,…
We know the pressure that the Executive are under in the current financial climate, especially with the health budget. The choice to fund the gender identity services is a choice over something else. In the interest of full transparency, what is the £806,000 that has been awarded for? Is it for the set-up? Is it the…
I thank the Minister for coming to the House. Will he outline how he will include buy-in into the future services from the sector and the individuals that this concerns, given that, previously, they have felt that they have been ignored or excluded from previous reviews? They have indicated that, currently, they have…
I think that the Minister has answered this, but I will give him the chance to be clearer. In answer to the supplementary question from my colleague from Upper Bann, he used the word "surgery". I will rephrase the question: does he agree that any counselling service for gender dysphoric children that the new service…
Just before I respond to Mrs Dillon, I want to address something that I have not addressed, which is the idea that the plan was in the public domain before I briefed the Executive. I can confirm that that was the case because we did not make the announcement; it came via the Rainbow Project. To Mrs Dillon, the beauty…
In relation to the previous response, do you agree that, across the Executive, we have been clear, whether we are talking about victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence, victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse, victims and survivors of mother-and-baby homes or those who, unfortunately,…
The stakeholders, including the Rainbow Project, were brought into discussions about the way forward. That is entirely consistent with co-design, so I do not get the implication in the question that, somehow, that was wrong. The matter of regret for me is that it asked for and was given permission to talk to the wider…
Will the Minister confirm, as referenced in the media, that the Rainbow Project was part of the gender clinic review group putting pressure on the clinicians to ignore the Cass review recommendations and, as such, was briefed on the Minister's plans before they were brought to the Executive? If so, how appropriate was…
Let me put it this way, which, I hope, will be an assurance to the Member: if I were given incontrovertible evidence that that sort of thing was happening and was being promulgated by a member of the workforce delivering gender identity services, I would want to eyeball that person and say, "At least one of us has to…
It is important to talk sensibly about the issue and to unpack some myths. It is important, first of all, to say that trans people exist and trans young people are members of society who deserve healthcare, support, respect and esteem like everybody else. Earlier, two things that feel like myths were mentioned.…